Justus Deikumah

Justus Deikumah
Justus Deikumah

Position

PhD Candidate -  Landscape Ecology & Conservation   

Contact

Location: 35-541
Email: j.deikumah2@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 402 108 370

Qualifications

M. Phil. Zoology (Wildlife Management& Conservation), UCC, Ghana
BSc.(Hons) Biological Sciences, UCC, Ghana

Project

Effects of fragmentation and matrix characteristics on condition and distribution of forest birds in south-west Ghana, West Africa.
  • Advisor(s)

Dr Martine Maron, A/Prof Clive McAlpine, Dr. Erasmus Henaku Owusu

  •  Timeframe

 2010-2013

  •  Funding

UQIRTA & UQRSS

  •  Description

My research will provide an understanding of how habitat fragmentation affects health and physiological condition of birds and develop a strong foundation for predictive conservation biology in fragmented landscapes using morphological and haematological parameters to identify factors related to elevated chronic stress and body condition of birds in fragmented landscapes. This information will then be used for making important predictions about where local extinctions of species will occur, especially in fragmented zones still experiencing faunal relaxation, before they exert their full impacts. The research will be conducted in the fragmented forest zones of south west Ghana in West Africa.

Experience

I have worked as a senior research assistant in the University Of Cape Coast School of Biological Sciences from 2003 to 2007 and was promoted to the position of principal research assistant in November, 2007. I was appointed as a lecturer in the Dept. of Entomology and Wildlife in the same school till date.

Interests

Bird watching, Teaching and Fieldwork
My M.Phil thesis was on the “Foraging ecology and aspects of social behaviour in three sympatric species of Turacos (Family Musophagidae) in the Kakum Conservation Area in Ghana”

Last updated: Jan 31, 2013

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